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Friday 04 May 2007: Last convicted witch
The last person convicted in the UK under the 1735 Witchcraft Act, Helen Duncan, a Scottish "medium", was sentenced in 1944 to nine months in prison. The Witchcraft Act was repealed with the enactment of the Fraudulent Mediums Act of 1951.

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